Why It Matters

Article schema provides explicit metadata regarding content authorship and publication recency. Search engines and AI answer engines use this structured data to understand who wrote a piece and when, which supports trust and helps them credit the original source.

Google has no required properties for Article markup, but recommends headline, image, datePublished, dateModified and author (a Person or Organization, with a url pointing to their profile page), plus publisher.

Code Example (JSON-LD Article)

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BlogPosting",
  "headline": "SEO Article Title",
  "image": "https://example.com/images/article.jpg",
  "datePublished": "2026-10-22",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-22",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Aaron Bacon",
    "url": "https://example.com/authors/aaron"
  }
}